Full Circle Music: A Nashville Recording Studio & Online Music Education Academy
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Many want to "make it" in the music industry. Few successfully make it in. Even fewer stay in. The goal of this podcast is to help bring some clarity to your path towards a music career. We want to help you not only get in, but stay in. To this end, hosts Seth Mosley and X O'Connor will dig deep with luminaries of the music industry. These are people who have "made it" and today have very notable careers. Many are Grammy winners and work with prominent record labels. Some of our listeners might be on the creative side as...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical studio detail meets candid guidance on collaboration, client-building and the emotional pressures surrounding a music career.
Made It In Music turns career advice into workshop talk, with Seth Mosley and X O'Connor moving between production decisions, co-writing etiquette, client development and professional relationships.
That Casio-drums work tape might make you rethink what belongs in your producer portfolio.
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A grounded music-business conversation about creativity, connections, and the road into A&R.
Jonathan Gamble and Stephen Floyd spend the episode on a familiar but useful tension: making honest work while still thinking about what the market will hear.
A grounded conversation about songwriting, waiting, and keeping envy from taking root.
Ben Stennis comes across as a songwriter whose credits give the conversation real weight, but the more interesting part is how he talks about waiting, comparison, and envy.
A grounded publishing primer for writers still trying to get songs heard.
Seth Mosley focuses on the writer's side of music publishing, and the advice stays grounded in what can be done before a deal shows up. The message is simple enough: stay organized, keep writing, make demos that hold up, and keep pitching, because songs often need a few tries…
Practical lyric craft with a faith angle that makes the advice stick.
Tony Wood keeps the focus on the work itself: how ideas show up, why writing them down matters, and how rough lines turn into songs with more shape and feeling. Riley Taylor keeps the conversation close to the actual co-write, which helps the piece stay grounded.
A practical listen for producers who want detailed craft guidance.
Seth Mosley and X O'Connor keep the focus on the craft behind a finished track, moving through vocal production, sound selection, editing, and the small choices that raise the whole thing.
A patient, practical look at songwriting when the break does not arrive on schedule.
Paul Duncan's CCM songwriting conversation centers on the long haul: near misses, waiting, and the point where the work starts to carry its own weight.
A practical conversation about networking, creative community, and the relationships that keep music work moving.
This conversation stays with networking in the music industry and the search for a creative tribe in Nashville and beyond. Seth Mosley, X O'Connor, and Maggie Youngs keep it practical, moving from stormy Nashville chatter into advice about being a connector, offering help before…
Practical co-write advice that stays close to the room and the work.
Seth Mosley and Riley Taylor treat a co-write as something that can go off the rails for ordinary, familiar reasons, and they spend the episode naming those mistakes with the kind of detail that only comes from having been in the room.
Joe Wong interviews drummers and musicians about craft, history, and the working musician's life.
Lij Shaw interviews producers and engineers about mic technique, mixing, and studio business.
Ian Shepherd and working mastering engineers dig into Atmos, loudness wars, and vinyl cutting.
Co-hosts Ed Thorne and Paul Third dissect mixing, mastering, and studio gear with working engineers.
Riley Taylor introduces Seth Mosley, Sam Tanez, and Paul Duncan for a live Song Chasers Q&A about what the music industry does not tell songwriters.
X O'Connor frames producer client-finding as a mix of strong music, word of mouth, and simple outreach, not a single step-by-step formula.
Jacob Biz Morris, a Grammy-winning mixing engineer and vice president at Reach Records, explains how he started engineering at 15 in Dallas and later moved to Atlanta in 2013 after deciding he had hit a cap in Dallas.
Made It In Music covers AI in music with specific attention to Suno, vocal cloning, production tools, and the legal fights around training data.
Seth Mosley and Maggie Young sit down with Jerry Negrotto to talk about mental, emotional, and spiritual health for musicians and songwriters.
Made It In Music returns with a brand new season opener.
Jacob Biz Morris, a Grammy award-winning mixing engineer and vice president at Reach Records in Atlanta, talks through how he handles label work, artist work, and the scheduling pressure of modern releases.
Seth Mosley and XO Connor spend the episode studying hitmakers and asking what sets good apart from legendary.
Riley Taylor hosts Seth Mosley for a live Ask Me Anything with the Song Chasers community about making money in music.
Riley Taylor of Full Circle Music interviews Alex Akimov about AI, music promotion, and digital marketing, and Alex traces his path from classical music training in Russia to touring guitar work in Los Angeles.
Tim Hunzey, VP of publishing at Big Machine Music, uses a 2022 Music Makers Boot Camp panel in Nashville to explain how publishers evaluate writers and build careers.
Sync is bigger than promo music.
Jonathan Gamble and Stephen Floyd swap notes.
Ben Stennis shows up with receipts and humility.
Soft skills are the whole point here.
Seth Mosley breaks down what a music publisher really does and why that role matters for how you approach your career.
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Riley Taylor sits down with Tony Wood to talk lyrics.
Riley Taylor opens the episode by framing a conversation with Seth Mosley and X O'Connor around the producer questions the Song Chasers community asks most often.
Paul Duncan, a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer who has worked with Lauren Daigle, Elle King, and Dan and Shay, talks through top tips for CCM songwriting on Made It In Music.
Seth Mosley, X O’Connor, Riley, and Maggie Youngs frame networking as a music-industry necessity, not a side skill, and tie it to Song Chasers and producer relationships.
Tom Douglas discusses legendary songwriting career spanning 30 years and 3000+ songs.
Seth Mosley and Riley Taylor frame this Song Chasers training around "what not to do in a co-write," drawing from more than 2,000 co-writes and four publishing deals.
Alex Akimov argues that music videos are not dying, but artists should film them as long-form content and cut them into dozens of short pieces for TikTok and Instagram.
Tim Hunze, VP of Publishing at Big Machine Music, shares insider advice for songwriters and artists on navigating the music publishing world.
Riley Taylor brings together Seth Mosley, Sam Tanez, and Paul Duncan for a live Song Chasers conversation about what the music industry does not tell new artists.
Brad O'Donnell, co-president of Capital Christian Music Group, answers questions from the 2023 Music Makers Boot Camp in Nashville about how artists get heard, when to move to a music city, and how AI may change the value of human performance.